## Hillside Heroes 1194129 Annual Report for the year ending 31 March 2023 

## **Aims and Purposes** 

Hillside Heroes is a community group opera�ng in Pendle, Lancashire, seeking to promote the conserva�on, protec�on and improvement of the physical and natural environment by promo�ng biological diversity and heritage assets. 

## **Objec�ves and Ac�vi�es** 

The main focus of a�en�on over the last 12 months has been in a�emp�ng to protect and preserve ca. 14 ha of countryside between Colne and Nelson know as Gib Hill for the benefit of the natural environment and local community.  Working closely with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Hillside Heroes has been ac�vely lobbying Pendle Council to declare the site as a Local Nature Reserve. As the site had not yet been officially declared as a Local Nature Reserve, ac�vi�es on the ground this year have been limited to regular li�er picking, footpath maintenance work with the Council and the removal of some dangerous barbed wire fencing. 

## **Achievements and Performance** 

Post-year end, confirma�on was indeed received from Natural England of a successful applica�on for LNR status.  Once the LNR is formally declared by Pendle Council, it is envisaged that Hillside Heroes will be suppor�ng the Council in the management of the site.  Financial ac�vi�es have been limited with small dona�ons to match the limited outgoings. Once a Nature Reserve is established, Hillside Heroes expect to be involved with the search for volunteers to help with environmental improvement projects and to undertake fund raising and grant applica�ons to support such projects; and establishing educa�onal projects with local schools and other community groups. Hillside Heroes is on the lookout for other opportuni�es in Pendle to further its Charitable Objec�ves. 

## **Volunteers** 

Hillside Heroes would like to thank all volunteers who have helped the charity with this year’s achievements, and we could not operate without them. 



MINUTES of a Mee�ng held on 22nd January 2024 online 

## PRESENT: 

Andrew Ashworth (Chair) Mark Chung (Treasurer) Karen Haworth 

1. The Chair noted the nature of the mee�ng and shared dra� documents. The Trustees confirmed that they have no financial interests or conflicts of interest. 

## 2. IT WAS RESOLVED that: 

- the accounts be approved for signing by Andrew Ashworth 

- Andrew Ashworth be authorized to submit them to the Charity Commission 

There being no further business, the mee�ng ended. 

Signed as a proper record by 


Andrew Ashworth Chair 



||**Hillside Heroes**|**Hillside Heroes**|**Hillside Heroes**|**Hillside Heroes**|**Hillside Heroes**|**No:  1194129**|**No:  1194129**||**CC16a**|
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||01/04/2022||**To**||31/03/2023|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest**<br>**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donations|**99**||**-**||**-**||**99**||**204**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**99**||**-**||**-**||**99**||**204**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment**<br>**sales, (see table).**||||||||||
|None|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Total receipts_**|**99**||**-**||**-**||**99**||**204**|
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Raisingfunds|**99**||**-**||**-**||**99**||**129**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**99**||**-**||**-**||**99**||**129**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
|None|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Total payments_**|**99**||**-**||**-**||**99**||**129**|
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||<br>**-**||**75**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**75**||**-**||**-**||**75**||**-**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**75**||**-**||**-**||**75**||**75**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Cash at bank||||**75**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**75**||**-**||**-**|
||(agree balances w ith receipts and payments<br>account(s))||||OK||||OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of<br>approval|
||||||Andrew Ashworth||||29/01/2024|
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